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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Second Look Sunday: Evening Blooms Quilt Tutorial

Happy Sunday everyone! This year I'm starting a new feature on my blog called Second Look Sunday. I've been blogging here for ten years now - TEN! That's crazy! And with so many of you being new readers, I wanted to highlight and share with you some quilts and tutorials you might have missed! So the second Sunday of each month will be Second Look Sunday. This month's second look pattern is called Evening Blooms.

I designed this quilt in 2013 to go with a new line from Carina Gardner & Riley Blake. The line was had some great florals and geometric prints but it was all in black and white. This was a fun challenge for me - I wanted to showcase the constrast between the prints, and focus on using the value of the fabrics (the lightness and darkness) to create a secondary design in the blocks. What do you think? Can you see it?

6 comments:

Ugh, even though you mention stretching, I think you should say every edge on your 1/2 square tri's will be bias for new quilters or not so accurate quilters. Working with bias edges makes everything more difficult even if you are careful. It's a beautiful quilt but I'd never make my 1/2 sq tri's that way unless I starched the HECK out of the fabric.